The Art of the Brick, the world's most famous traveling Lego exhibition, arrives in Milan

The Art of the Brick, the traveling LEGO® Art exhibition curated by Fabio Di Gioia and produced by Exhibition Hub and Fever, has opened in Milan, bringing together reinterpretations of art’s most important masterpieces along with original sculptures, all made entirely with Lego bricks. Set up at the Ride Milano Urban Hub, the historic Porta Genova freight yard in the heart of the Navigli, the exhibition, which has been named by CNN as one of the world’s top ten must-see exhibitions, features the works of contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya (Colville, 1973), acclaimed for creating a new dimension by combining Pop Art and Surrealism in an innovative way.

Among the works exhibited, in addition to reinterpretations of such masterpieces of universal art as Michelangelo’s David, Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, are Venus de Milo, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Warhol’ s portrait, theRembrandt’s Self-Portrait, Rodin’s The Thinker, Munch’s The Scream, Monet’s St. George Major at Dusk, Degas’s Dancer, Modigliani’s Head, Klimt’s The Kiss, the Parthenon, or huge sculptures, such as the nearly 7-meter-long skeleton of a T- Rex, built with more than 80.000 bricks. The exhibition also features In Pieces, an innovative multimedia collection of perspective visions produced through a special technique that mixes photographs and LEGO® bricks. The project was created in tandem with award-winning photographer Dean West.

Finally, the exhibition hosts a Play and Build area for young and old, where they will be able to unleash their creativity. “Nathan Sawaya’s work,” points out exhibition curator Fabio Di Gioia, “immediately strikes, perhaps even moreÌ€ the adult than the child. In fact, the works all seem easy to make: you just need a good number of bricks and join them together in a pattern. But in THE ART OF THE BRICK there is mostly the element of genius, hidden by divertissement, expressing both art, reinterpreting it, and the human condition. And this is rather an adult play.”

The Art of the Brick, the world's most famous traveling Lego exhibition, arrives in Milan

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